bot

Notes: Bot is of course short for robot, and just like the shortened form bots tend to be simpler than robots. Often bots are so-called softbots, or software robots, and robots are actually associated more often with “hardbots” or physical robots. There is a widely held school of thought in robotics that a robot without […]

Notes: Generally speaking, most of these bots are feed based. However, occasionally when no feed exists then one is created using conventional scraping and mash-up tools. Most of the bots below are either forum, news or search bots. Forum bots may be web forums or “mailing lists”. Search bots represent topic based search feeds. Search bots may use […]